TroubleandGrumpy

Hope you find it - before Uncle Billy-Joe finds you

Seems to me that quite a few people are arguing what 'this clause' or 'that clause' means under a DTA. @Sheryl Is merely pointing out what the rule states - there is no point arguing about it guys. Exactly how the Thai RD determines how any applicable DTA clause will/wont apply, is solely up to the Thai RD. This is not the West where the rules and laws are detailed and people can 'push back' on what they mean in application. This is one of the many issues that the Thai RD must now address - they never have for personal taxes in the past. We will all have to wait until the Thai RD releases its clarifications and exemptions and determinations, before 'knowing' anything. Arguing over what a clause/paragraph in a DTA or the Thai RD Guidelines is a waste of time. IMO best to start preparing and planning and wait - best case scenario, worst case scenario, acceptable scenario. The Thai RD has been 'operating' for decades based upon very few detailed definitive 'guidances'. A lot of their rules/interpretations have been sorted out in Court - it is a very complex thing writing tax laws/rules. This change is being made (for obvious reasons) to an 'interpretation' that was ratified in a Court over 30 years ago. The reason is simple - the Govt needs more money - but they have under-estimated how hard this will be (far too many issues). My plan is simple - and it seems others are of the same thought. I am bringing forward remittances into Thailand this year (for 2024) and will bring in the absolute minimum in 2024. Before the end of 2024 it should be clear what the Thai RD is going to do regarding remittances into Thailand by retired/married Expats. It could also be that the Thai Govt does what Malaysia did, and defers implementation for a few years. Malaysia did that because it was going to take that long to determine all the rules and clarifications etc. and publish them. If I am going to be 'forced' to lodge a tax return in 2025 and it appears I will be paying income taxes - then we are leaving Thailand. Unless it is a resonable amount and I get something in return - legal rights, no 90 days, no annual begging to stay, health services, etc.

My thoughts exactly - I hope he has not already paid the deposit.

Reading Poms arguing over the road rules in UK - Hilarious Poms 'explaining' any situation in Thailand - Abolutely Hilarious. Demanding 'constructive' posts - meaning 'what I agree with' - Delusional and Hilarious. Get a Life and Have a Great Day

Maybe Enoch Powell's unheeded words of wisdom will come true soon. Seems to me, as an outside observer, that pro-Palestine demonstrators have the right to 'peacefully' show their support. But to allow that 'support' anywhere near the Cenotaph, or other people supporting Armistance Day rememberances, is wrong. And if/when Hama nutters start shouting out viscious hatred to Israel and to Kill the Jews - they should be arrested and jailed. If they dont get arrested, like those who abused people in a BLM/LGTQ rally, then people will eventually take the law into their own hands.

Judging by all your argumentative (UK centric) posts - same - BLOCKED. And no one gives a rat's rear either - especially not me.

She means 99% of the Thai girls she meets at work?

That is why so many blokes put up with their special type of 'abuse' - and then it is too late to leave - and next is that she/family kick you out. It aint ever going to be better to stay, and it aint ever going to be easy to leave. The plan IMO should be to go somewhewre where she cannot find you - perhaps another country would be best - The Philippines? Spain? Plenty of single blokes down Jopmtein/Pattaya way that have been through exactly what you are going through. Somewhere you can go and live by yourself for a while and let things work themselves out. After that maybe you can find another - but dont look there - look elsewhere for a good keeper.

Why are you guys arguing over the road rules in UK?

ROFLOL - Do you feel the same when Thais use the term Farang ?? Get over yourself mate - it is a generic term to signifiy a young Thai male who drives a car/pickup/bike far too fast. If you do actually live here, you will see it is never young Thai females - hence male name Somchai.

Thanks mate - much appreciated. I wont smoke because of both lung issues and also because I might start again. But your post is full of usful information and is much appreciated by me and others too.

This is not UK or Aust guys - things that happened back home and the laws back home, mean absolutely nothing here.

I hear you - BUT - the reason (besides the hit) I say that is because the other cars were stopped at the lights - Somchai just went stright through. I would not be surprised if he saw the green lights and went upo the inside (at speed). But I am only surmising - as are you. In my experience 'Somchais' are extremely dangerous drivers that in the West would eventually be caught and locked up and vehicle confiscated.

Another 'quality' tourist visiting Thailand - and this goes on and on nearly every day. Another gun shooting and death. Another boat accident and death. Another series of violent assults. And on and on and on it goes - and the Baht still way too high And they wonder why the Chinese are reluctant to come here.

Yeh right mate - no wuking furries - I believe that totally - NOT.

Clearly the pickup hit the ambulance - not the other way around. Looks to me that Somchain (in pickup) was doing his usual and driving dangerously fast. He probably did not even see the ambulance with its lights on etc. until just before he hit it - they never do. I dont want Thailand to become like Australia with speed cameras everywhere - that is for sure. But they gotta nail these Somchais driving their pickups like they did when on their scooters - dangerously fast.

And all the roadworks and the flooding mitigation system.

And I figure you can also guess which way I would have voted too

Thanks mate - very much appreciated for sending that. Let us know how you go next week. Still looking and checking myself - found some research articles below. Medicinal Cannabis for Treatment of Chronic Pain - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf (nih.gov) Use of Cannabis and Other Pain Treatments Among Adults With Chronic Pain in US States With Medical Cannabis Programs | Opioids | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network Medicinal cannabis for pain: Real-world data on three-month changes in symptoms and quality of life - Kylie O’Brien, Justin Beilby, Michelle Frans, Michael Lynskey, Michael Barnes, Mihindu Jayasuriya, Alkyoni Athanasiou-Fragkouli, Philip Blair, David Nutt, 2023 (sagepub.com)

Indigenous - (of people) inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists. Do you mean the indidenous aboriginees that came 70-80k years ago, or one of the many waves of peoples that came afterwards, with the last 'wave' being about 12K years ago - just before the seas rose (due to 'climate warming') and the land mass was cut off. And I guess you mean 'Australian' Indigenous - as in those that were on the land mass named Australia when found by the 'colonists' - Or are you referring to members of one of the many hundreds of nomadic tribes that wandered around that land we named Australia?

What happens is that the KK Immi Officers will do a home visit - make sure he has a 'witness' ready to talk to them. They come inside the house as a check that he lives live there, take photos with him/wife/them, and then talk to witness. That is all bundled, together with his application documents and sent to Bangkok. Bangkok approve or disapprove and send back to KK who then will give stamp in Passport if approved. There is an online check system for the Bangkok part - KK should have given him details or maybe not available to them. That is of course if that is the same system as they did down here. Maybe KK approve or disapprove themselves - I have no idea.

AND - That is how I spell and say their name - Abbo Riginee or Abboriginee

REPEAT: Great result - even greater to see all the woke progressive lefties become offended by the sheer audacity of the Aust People to reject their BS.

Great result - even greater to see all the woke progressive lefties become offended by the sheer audacity of the Aust People to reject their BS. (for my sins) Years ago I worked in Canberra for a while (not in Govt) and I got to know some senior public servants - yes some of them are OK (about 20%). This was the time of ATSIC and before Howard had won and abolished that corrupt waste of taxpayer money. He said that if we paid every single Abboriginee $1M each and told them to 'f off' and gave them no more 'additional aid/services/money' we would be better off in 15 years, and then going forward we would save $billions. I ran into him some years later when Aust had its one and only ever feminist PM, and he said he was wrong. He said that now it will only take 5-6 years to break even!! You guys have absolutely no idea how much money is wasted on Abboriginees - by all levels of Gopvernment and though Quasi-Governemnt Organisations and Charities and NGOs. Take what you know now and triple it. Our debt would dissappear in a few years if it was all stopped - and a lot of useless woke lefty people would be out of work - A LOT!

I am late to this post and cannot find the original post - I assume it is not back when this thread started in 2008. I am usually across all these sort of things - is there something I missed? Has there been a change of the laws relkating to the tax residency status for pensioners? Why are people saying pensioners will/may be forced to return to Australia?